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  • Thirty Years From Home - Or, A Voice From The Main Deck - Being The Experience Of Samuel Leech

    Who Was For Six Years In The British And American Navies - Was Captured In The British Frigate Macedonian - Afterwards Entered The American Navy, And Was Taken In The United States Brig Syren, By The British Ship Medway.

    by Samuel Leech ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thirty Years from Home - Or, A Voice from the Main Deck, Being the Experience of Samuel Leech

    by Samuel Leech ...
    This text contains Samuel Leech's fascinating account of his nautical adventures. 'Thirty Years From Home, Or, A Voide From the Main Deck' provides an intriguing insight into life in a man of war - recounted as it appears to the sailor on board. Leech made it his duty to 'state facts as they were when I was a sailor', with an object of giving as true a picture as possible, of everyday occurrences ... Read more

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  • Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck

    Being the Experience of Samuel Leech

    by Samuel Leech ...
    In "Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck," Samuel Leech presents a compelling narrative of his experiences as a sailor over three decades, skillfully capturing the trials and tribulations of life at sea. The book is written in a lively, anecdotal style that blends autobiographical detail with social commentary, reflecting the harsh realities faced by sailors in the 19th century. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Voice from the Main Deck

    Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech

    by Samuel Leech ...
    Samuel Leech (1798–1848) was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few who wrote an account of his experiences, titled, in the manner of the time, "A Voice from the Main Deck".Leech's nautical career began in 1810, at the age of thirteen, when Lord William FitzRoy agreed to take Samuel into his frigate HMS Macedonian.He ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    An Audio Bundle: Epic & Rough Water

    by Greg Child, Stephen Venables, Art Davidson, David Roberts, Alfred Lansing, Charles Houston, Maurice Herzog, Robert Bates; Sebastian Junger, Patrick O’Brian, Herman Wouk, Lawrence Beesley0, Steven Callahan1, David Lewis2, FA Worsley3, Samuel Leech4 ...
    Narrated by Eric Conger5, Graeme Malcolm6, Graeme Malcolm7, Alan Sklar8, Rick Adamson; George Guidall9, Simon Prebble0, Rick Adamson1 ...
    Series series An Audio Bundle

    Unabridged

    11 hours 10 min

    · Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner · ForeWord Magazine's 'Audiobook of the Year' Winner · AFIM Indie Award Winner · Independent Publisher Magazine’s ‘IPPY Award’ Finalist. Epic--a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Voice from the Main Deck

    Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech

    by Samuel Leech ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    I heard the shot strike the sides of our ship; the whole scene grew indescribably confused and horrible; it was like some awfully tremendous thunder-storm, whose deafening roar is attended by incessant streaks of lightning, carrying death in every flash and strewing the ground with the victims of its wrath: only, in our case, the scene was rendered more horrible than that, by the presence of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Call Of The Wild

    by Jack London ...
    Narrated by Bob Sessions ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 22 min

    Brimming with tense and violent incidents The Call Of The Wild traces the changes in the heart of Buck, the dog who grows from a pampered pet in California to a rugged fearsome and indomitable working dog in the far north. Primeval instincts surface in Buck, and only his affection for John Thornton, his one decent master, delays his return to the wild. Finally, after avenging his murdered friend, ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Captain Frederick Marryat (Delphi Classics)

    by Captain Frederick Marryat, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 8 - Delphi Series Four
    An early pioneer of the sea story, Frederick Marryat also achieved fame as an author of children's novels, including the celebrated ‘The Children of the New Forest’. This comprehensive eBook presents Marryat’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Captain Marryat's Collected Works

    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Captain Marryat's Collected works  is contained 13 works written by Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr.Midshipman Easy and his children's novel The Children of ... Read more

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  • Life of a Sailor

    by Frederick Chamier ...
    Series series Seafarers' Voices
    Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sailor was his first publication and is usually catalogued as fiction, which may be a tribute to Chamiers story-telling skills but it is wrong the book is an exact account of his naval career, with every personality, ship and event he describes ... Read more

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  • Landsman Hay

    by Robert Hay ...
    Series series Seafarers' Voices
    A Royal Navy sailor recounts his adventuresome life at sea in this colorful memoir offering a rare look at early nineteenth century naval life.In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy. For the next eight years, he experienced the trials and tribulations of a sailor's life. Intelligent and capable, he served a series of officers, all of whom helped ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Prisoners of the Revolution

    by Danske Dandridge ...
    It is with no desire to excite animosity against a people whose blood is in our veins that we publish this volume of facts about some of the Americans, seamen and soldiers, who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of the enemy during the period of the Revolution. We have concealed nothing of the truth, but we have set nothing down in malice, or with undue recrimination. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD